Question

I am trying to write a function which checks if a “Finished Lesson” was four days ago. How do I check if said lesson was in that time range, for example. If it was finished yesterday, 2 days ago, 3 days ago, 4 days ago, it would be true since it is in the time range of “4 days ago”.

How do I check this?

So far I’ve done:

$time = time();

$fourDays = 345600;
$threeDays = 259200;
$lastLesson = $ml->getLesson($cid, $time, true);

$lastLessonDate = $lastLesson['deadline'];
$displayLastLesson = false;
if ($lastLessonDate  + $fourDays < $time)
{
    $displayLastLesson = true;
    //We print lesson that was finished less than 4 days ago
}
else
{
    //We print lesson that is in the next 3 days

}

Right now, the if statement keeps hitting true which is not what I want since I have a lesson that was finished on the 3rd May. It should be true for a lesson that was finished on the 7th May I guess?

Answer 1

$time = time();
$fourDays = strtotime('-4 days');
$lastLesson = $ml->getLesson($cid, $time, true);

$lastLessonDate = $finishedLesson['deadline'];
$displayLastLesson = false;
if ($lastLessonDate >= $fourDays && $lastLessonDate <= $time)
{
    $displayLastLesson = true;
    //We print lesson that was finished less than 4 days ago
}
else
{
    //We print lesson that is in the next 3 days

}